{"id":4233,"date":"2012-05-18T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4233"},"modified":"2012-05-18T05:19:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T09:19:08","slug":"the-history-of-the-swiss-army-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-history-of-the-swiss-army-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Of The Swiss Army Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/051812_0910_TheHistoryO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"470\" \/><\/p>\n<p>James Melik reviewed some of the history behind Switzerland&#8217;s most iconic product. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Swiss Army Knife was first patented over a hundred years ago in 1897.<\/li>\n<li>The company behind the knife makes 35,000 each day.<\/li>\n<li>In the aftermath of the 9\/11 attacks pocket knives were banned from airplanes. This caused sales of Swiss Army Knives to plummet by 30%.<\/li>\n<li>To deal with this the company released a &#8216;flight version&#8217; of their product \u2013 it features no blades but has all the other functions.<\/li>\n<li>More recent innovations include an army knife with a USB stick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the countries that the company currently supplies, how they feel about the Chinese market, how the company, Victorinox, got its name, and why they have never made a worker redundant for financial reasons, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-18005145\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-18005145\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Melik reviewed some of the history behind Switzerland&#8217;s most iconic product. Highlights include: The Swiss Army Knife was first patented over a hundred years ago in 1897. The company behind the knife makes 35,000 each day. In the aftermath of the 9\/11 attacks pocket knives were banned from airplanes. This caused sales of Swiss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/051812_0910_TheHistoryO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4235,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4233\/revisions\/4235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}